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cut-glass

cut-glass is the attributive form of cut glass (“made of cut glass.

cut-glass is the alternative form of cutglass.

Meaning of cut glass

Noun

cut glass (uncountable)

  1. Glass that has been cut, using an abrasive wheel, into a decorative pattern of facets.
    • He looked round the poor room, at the distempered walls, and the bad engravings in meretricious frames, the crinkly paper and wax flowers on the chiffonier; and he thought of a room like Father Bryan's, with panelling, with cut glass, with tulips in silver pots, such a room as he had hoped to have...1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter X, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC

Meaning of cutglass

Adjective

cutglass (not comparable)

  1. (informal) Of an English accent, very precisely and clearly enunciated.

Questions about cut-glass

What is cut-glass the attributive form of cut glass (“made of?
Cut-glass is the attributive form of cut glass (“made of cut glass.

Words near cut-glass in the dictionary

  1. cut-back
  2. cut-backs
  3. Cut-cut I
  4. Cut-cut II
  5. cut-down
  6. cut-glass
  7. cut-in
  8. cut-ins
  9. cut-off
  10. cut-off time
  11. cut-off times

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